Measuring-harness.



P. DE FEO.

MEASURING HARNESS.

APPLICATION FILED 1116.22, 1908.

947,542. Patented Jan.25, 1910.

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MEASURING HARNESS.

' APPLICATION FILED AUG. 22. 1008. I 947542, Patented Jan. 25, 1910.

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FRANK DE FE O, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT.

MEAS RING-HARNESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed August 22. 1908.

Serial No. 449,811.

' lo all whom itma'y concern:

Be it known that I, ltfniusu Ds Foo, a citizen of the United States, residing at \Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticutg'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Measuring- Harness, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a measuring harness.

One of the objects is to provide a device of this character which may be easily and quickly applied to a persons body to obtain measurements therefrom to be used in the makingof clothiu Another object'is to provide a device of this character which may be used by persons unskilled in the tailoring art in order that it may be used in the home by persons who may wish to make their own clothing or who may wish to send the correct measurements to a tailor.

A further object is to provide a device which will be uimpleinconstruction, inexpensive to make, and which will be accurate and reliable in operation.

Other objects will be in part obvious and in part pointed out hereinafter.

The invention accordingly consists in the features of construction, combinations of elements, and arrangement of parts, which will be exemplified in the construction hereinafter set forth, and the scope of the application of which will be inticated in the following claim.

In the accompanying drawings there'is shown an illustrative embodiment of the invention, in which the reference numerals.

refer to similar parts throughout the several figures. 4

Figure 1 is a front view of my device in the position upon the body of a person. Fig. 2 is a rear view (If the same. Fig. 3. is a perspective view of the same detached from 'the body of the wearer.

with the lowermost body member, the front vertical member being shown in section.

Referring now to the drawings seen that the device comprises a plurality of members or straps adapted to encircle the body at different points-thereof, the up ermost of said members 1- being adapte to pass around the neck. This member consists of a strap having a pin or stud 2 attached to one end thereof, and a series of holes 3 formed in its other end and adapted to enga e said pin, as is clearly shown in Fig. '6. Secured to one end of the neck member 1 and depcndin therefrom, is a vertical neck member is the back member 5 provided The other body members 7 8 and 9 are adapted to pass around the chest, waist and hips of the person respectively, and as these members are similar in construction to one another, but one will be described in detail. For lpurposes of illustration, '1 will describe the owermost of thesemembers which is adapted to pass around the hips of the person to be measured. This member!) consists of a strap having one end formed into a snitalile loop 10 to slidingly engage the front member 4, and is provided with a slidin connection 11 for attachment to the bee: member 5. This sliding connection is shown as consisting of two loops 12 and 13 secured to each other, one of said loops being.provided \ltll a vertical opening 1 to receive and Sll( e u on the back member, and the other of saic loops is rovided with a horizontal opening 15 to receive and slide upon said body member, by means of which construction it will be seen that the two members may be adjusted with respect to each [other to any desired degree. A'pin 10 is attached to one end of said strap or member 9,'the other end of which is provided with a series of holes 17 ada' ted to engage said pin, as clearly shown in ig. 7. It Will be understood that the chest. member 7 and waist member 8 are provided with similar sliding connections and fastening devices, by means of which they also may be adjusted to any desired degree.

Vertical side members 18 and 19 have one 05 their ends looped around the chest mem her 7 to provide a sliding connection therewith, and are slidinglysecured to the waist it will be I front member 4, an 'slidinglyengaging said.

with a loop 6 by means of which it may be adjusted with relation to said neck member.

Patented Jan. 25, .1910.

seams and hip members by sliding connections simithen be read oil and noted, thus giving the 55 his to that described above. An arm member is slidingly mounted uponthe chest member, and its free end is provided with a series of holes 21 adapted to engage with a pin 22 which may be secured to the side member 15. b'lidingly engaging the neck member is a shoulder strap 23 which may be provided with a series of hooks 24 for engagement with the arm member. Extending between the front member a and the side member 18 is a breast strap consisting of two portions 25 and 26, one of which hasa loop 27 formed in one end sliding upon said member, and another loop 28 is formed at its other end adapted, to receive the free end of the second portion of said breast member, the other end of which is provided with a loop engaging and sliding upon the -front member a, as clearly indicated in Fig. 3. A strap 29 provided with a hole in one of its ends adapted to engage the pin or stud 2 extends diagonally from the front of the neck member 1 to the point where the arm member 20 intersects the chest member 7, and its other end is provided with a series of holes adapted to engage the pin similar strap 30 provided with suitable holes extends diagonally from the pin 31 to the pin 32, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. All of these members described may' have inches and fractions thereof marked upon them, as

v indicated in the drawings, or any other suitable units of linear measurement which .may be desired.

'In practice, the harness is placed upon the body of the person,.as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, the neck member being preferably the first to be secured in position snugly embracing the neck. hers are then adjusted to the proper height and fastened by means of the pins and holes to snugly fit around the body of the wearer at the chest, waist and hips, as shown in= Figs. 1 and 2. The arm member is drawn over the upper part of the arm from the y The otherbody memback and passed down in front thereof and secured to the side portion 18, after which the shoulder strap is adjusted to occupy its proper position with the. appropriate hook engaging the arm member, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2. When the harness has been properly adjusted, the numbers corresponding to the various dimensions may exact measurements for the various dimen sions required in the making of either masculine or feminine clothing.

The harness is obviously adapted to be used for the purposes of obtaining measurements necessary for making suits, dresses, shirt waists, underwear, or, in fact, any article of Wearing apparel. 4

While I have shown the ends of the body members secured by means of studs and coacting holes, it will, of course, be understood that any suitable fastening devices may be used Without in any Way departing from the spirit of my invention.

As many changes could be made in the.

above construction and many apparently widely different embodiments of this invention could be made without departing from the scope thereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanying drawings shall be interpreted as. illustrative and not in a limiting sense.

It is also to be understood that the language used in the following claim is i ntended to cover all of the generic and specific features of the invention, and all state ments of the scope of the invention which, i

as a matter of language, might be said to.

fall therebetwecn.

Having described my invention, what body members adjacent one of said side members and adapted to have its other end.

brought into engagement with another of said side men'ibers.

in testimony whereof I aifix my signature,

in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK DE rEo.

Witnesses:

L. RUooInRo, FRANK PEXXASIBEH. 

